Five Tides Exhibition Launch

A joint venture by artists Annette Wiguna, Carolyn White, Diane Keating, Junko Kitamura, Nadia Rasheed, and guest artist Kate O’Shea.

Art is the cherry on top for me when it comes to this fabulous exhibition. The real highlights are meeting friends, neighbours, and friendly neighbours, people watching (art really does bring out the most interesting of humanity), and of course visiting one of my favourite planning case studies.

The very lovely, green, funky WGV Village.

Tonight, I finally got to peek inside SHACC (Sustainable Housing for Artists and Creatives), our local proud artists’ collective gallery space run by artists who live in and run the housing cooperative. Nestled amongst all the greenery, on the site of the old Kim Beazley School grounds and surrounds, opposite leafy Booyeembara Park and charming dwellings.

Lots of smiling faces all around, including a few out for their evening walk who happily happened upon the launch by chance.

The art features mixed media and textiles, watercolour fantastical design, personal reflections upon growing up in an interacial context, and celebration of nature.

The Five Tides Collective exhibition is open over this weekend, 22 and 23 November 2025 from 10am – 4pm.

It is near impossible to spend time in White Gum Valley without making a friend.

I absolutely urge you to go and say hello, breathe the cool air under all those trees, and surround yourself with beauty.

* By Gayle O’Leary. If you’d like to catch up on more by Gayle here on Fremantle Shipping News, look right here!

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